72. So all they that were moved at the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, assembled to me, while I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.
73. Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and my holy garment tore, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands to the Lord,
74. I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before your face;
75. for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven,
76. ever since the time of our fathers; and we are in great sin, even to this day.